When a 24-year-old from Australia who identifies himself as a self-confessed geek and gamer asks with an understandable air of frustration, “Somebody tell me (WTF) is Karva?!”, it’s time to check out what’s going on. For about three hours on Tuesday, Karva Chauth (KC) trended on Twitter, meaning the buzz...

The second generation of Volkswagen Touareg is scheduled to be rolled out in the Indian market by 2011 February. The company brings in the new version by promising it to deliver a better performance and fuel economy than the existing versions.
The Touareg is a large sized SUV and competes in the market with the Audi Q7 and the...

Travelling across Bihar in the middle of a heated political campaign this week, psephologist and political analyst Yogendra Yadav says he didn’t find a single person who felt that Bihar had not changed for the better in the last five years. “Development is a complicated word. It might not have reached each and every...

You may have heard of “cloud computing” and techies saying “the future is in the Cloud”. What do they mean? They’re referring to internet-based computing. As bandwidth in homes and offices increases, more and more applications are becoming web-based. Your Windows Live, Yahoo! and Google accounts...

“We have planned to introduce the ‘Fluence’ by mid 2011 and at that time we will have around 7-10 dealerships in the country… The dealerships would be operational in Tier I cities,” a company official told PTI.
Stating that the response for the dealership was good and encouraging, he said by 2013...

Mumbai: An ancient tunnel dating back 200 years was discovered on the premises of the General Post Office (GPO) at CST in Mumbai on Monday.
MiD DAY learnt about this slice of history and informed the GPO authorities three days ago. Initially, the authorities refused to believe that they could be sitting, in more ways than one,...

LUCKNOW: The arrival and departure of Goddess Durga is associated with a tradition. It is believed that the divinity comes to the earth through a medium. And the medium that she chooses has significant impact on the life of her devotees.
This year, the Goddess arrived on a jhoola, indicating weather changes while she left...

CHANDIGARH: Jatland may be basking in the golden glow of women medal winners at the Commonwealth Games but the average Haryanvi continues to disfavour the girl child, posting the worst gender skew in five years.
The sex ratio in Haryana has skid to its lowest of 834 girls for 1,000 boys in the age group of 0-6 years in the past...

Finally, the Commonwealth Games 2010 are over and we have been fairly successful in hosting this mega event. All’s well that ends well. However, it is not easy to forget that the run-up to the Games was a nerve-wrecking experience with reports of corruption, incomplete construction work, collapsing bridge, security threats...